AI-Driven Solutions Architect for Web Platforms

Inspired Thinking Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off that works for you

Family & life milestones

Financial perks

Growth & recognition

Community & wellbeing

Job summary

Inspired Thinking Group in Birmingham is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design and integration of web-based products and services.

You will mentor developers, govern software delivery lifecycle, and collaborate with analysts and third-party teams to real-world, scalable architectures.

Experience with HTML/JavaScript or Java, Spring, and AI-assisted tooling is valued; strong communication and documentation skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Provide technical support to business analysts by both attending meetings with customer and supporting solution design within discovery and ongoing projects.
• Analyse and propose options for technical solutions based on provided business requirements.
• Gather Technical and non-functional requirements and advise on impacts to solutions.
• Technical architecture design
• Prepare high level designs to share with customer
• Prepare technical documentation to guide development teams
• Support project manager and scrum master in providing high level estimates
• Validate and work with the teams to ensure these estimates are realistic and completed to specification and time alongside project management.
• Collaborate with Project management and business analysts on roadmap planning
• Work closely with development teams during design and implementation phases and supporting where necessary with particularly difficult solution implementation
• Act as an interface between the development and third party infrastructure teams to analyse, optimise and help with issue triage (at a high level.) on the platform.
• Technical governance and code review.
• Strong logical/problem solving skills.
• Use AI Tools to assist in research, in identifying solutions, and in the creation of documentation.
• Identify improvements, efficiencies, and support the use of secure coding practices for the development team, ensuring CI/CD and agentic coding assistance are used optimally on projects supported by the SA.
• To be considered for the role, candidates must have commercial experience with either HTML/JavaScript or Java, within the full software development life-cycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to business analysts by attending meetings with customer and supporting solution design within discovery and ongoing projects.
• Analyse and propose options for technical solutions based on provided business requirements.
• Gather Technical and non-functional requirements and advise on impacts to solutions.
• Technical architecture design
• Prepare high level designs to share with customer
• Prepare technical documentation to guide development teams
• Support project manager and scrum master in providing high level estimates
• Validate and work with the teams to ensure these estimates are realistic and completed to specification and time alongside project management.
• Collaborate with Project management and business analysts on roadmap planning
• Work closely with development teams during design and implementation phases and supporting where necessary with particularly difficult solution implementation
• Act as an interface between the development and third party infrastructure teams to analyse, optimise and help with issue triage (at a high level.) on the platform.
• Technical governance and code review.

Skills

HTML/JavaScript

Java/JEE

Spring

Microservices

AI Tools

Tools

Adobe AEM

Job description

Inspired Thinking Group in Birmingham is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead the design and integration of web-based products and services.

You will mentor developers, govern software delivery lifecycle, and collaborate with analysts and third-party teams to real-world, scalable architectures.

Experience with HTML/JavaScript or Java, Spring, and AI-assisted tooling is valued; strong communication and documentation skills are essential.